Chapter 4: A New World:

Khan sat back and rubbed his eyes realizing he needed to get sleep. He had been at this for days now, going through the earth histories of the past few centuries trying to make since of why things had happened the way they had. He knew God had a hand in allowing them to even survive all they had. Truly there was a reason he was alive and here now and as he looked he grew frustrated. He got up, drew his long red robe tighter around himself, walked out to his balcony, and looked over the small city below.

The world he was on was a good world, fertile and loving to him and his people. The treaties had been signed and officially, the Botany Bay had been found filled with dead people. They now had this sector of fifty habitable systems to grow and live on. Khan had taken over what was left of the Augment embryos, he had found away to remove the madness from them. They were raised with love and in families, something he never had, and it made all the difference, now the oldest ones had turned twenty years old and he was a proud grandfather to many children.

Farming was done mostly by machine and so the majority of the people had spent their time building this city. It was built of green tinged buildings with red tiled roofs. The city reminded Khan of pictures of ancient Rome he had seen growing up. He had ruled half a world at one time, but now he was a king of a sector of worlds and was pleased. Though his power was limited, he still was given great respect. Khan turned as Joachim came into the room and walked over to Khan.

"You should rest." Joachim said.

"I know it is in here somewhere." Khan said. "Why would Eugenics wish us dead even after all this time? It does not make since, after all they engineered us."

"Against God's will." Joachim said.

"Yet we live, God is not upset with us, we did not ask to be genetically engineered." Khan added understanding what Joachim said. "How go the elections?"

"Very well, so far the people are voting for the constitution government."

Khan really did not want power, that was not his aim in life to be a dictator, he had fought against those who had wished to destroy the world. The lies that had been spread in history that he was one of the dictators he had fought against, yes he was a dictator, but he was fair and good, he did not kill and those under him were able to life lives free of fear and war. He would show them, this election would prove he was not a dictator anymore, though he was king at the moment that would change. It was this reason he had taken the constitution of the United States of America and now brought this to a vote of the people to see if they would accept this as their law. So far, they seemed to want it.

"More peoples are wishing to live here." Joachim said.

"Let them come, as long as they are willing to work hard and abide the laws set up." Khan said. "We are not Federation and we will not be, they must realize that."

"Understood." Joachim said. "That is why you banned replication technology."

"It is a good idea on paper, but it keeps the human mind from fully developing. How can a human fully develop if he has all he needs handed to him and does not have to work for it?"

"Good point." Joachim said. "But you need to rest sir."

"Very well, in the morning I will come to you and we can work on this more."

Khan went to his bedchamber and slept well that night, he woke early, went for a run and a swim, and then had a large breakfast. He started back in on his tedious work and slowed down as he came across several files that he carefully looked over. He picked them up and carried them to where he kept the histories he had taken from Earth and compared them with those he had found. So far Eugenics had been a fully Earth based group, but in 1947 something changed. He looked from one file to the other and it hit him why Eugenics wanted his people dead.

"I found it!" Khan said as soon as he found Joachim. "Look it is clearly here!"

"The crash that would explain much." Joachim said.

"There is no prophecy." Khan said. "It is an alien life force that crashed on earth and no doubt is still alive."

"We need to warn Kirk." Joachim said.

"Agreed, he has earned my trust, after all he did help us." Khan said. "Is he not an Admiral now?"

"Yes, it has been a few years since the five year mission ended, no doubt the years have been kind to him." Joachim said.

"They have not been to me." Khan said holding a hand up to his mostly silver hair.

"Thought that was because of your wife and children sir." Joachim said.

"You have to get married" Khan said, "a wife and children changes you, makes life that much better."

"You know me, the eternal bachelor." Joachim said grinning. "So you wish me to call Kirk."

"Yes, he needs to know what we are up against."

Joachim did exactly that on the secure channel he had to the Federation. I hope that Kirk would still be willing to help even after all these years. They needed to stop what was happening if the Galaxy was to survive at all. Though with Khan and Kirk in the same room things would be interesting, they both managed to say the exact thing to get the other upset. Though Khan was mostly right in most cases, Kirk did not like to be wrong but he was much of the time. Why they were friends was beyond Joachim but he accepted it for what it was.

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So yes, there are quite a few things different, mainly Kirk and Khan are friends, of a sort. Kirk did help him gain freedom and a new sector, and even Khan would be happy with that. Yes I see the Augments as at the very least spiritual, so they do believe in A God out there.

Anyway, review please.